{"id":30895,"date":"2025-01-19T13:02:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T13:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/19\/lina-khans-legacy-could-prove-to-be-fragile-as-trump-pick-takes-helm-of-ftc\/"},"modified":"2025-01-19T13:02:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T13:02:58","slug":"lina-khans-legacy-could-prove-to-be-fragile-as-trump-pick-takes-helm-of-ftc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/19\/lina-khans-legacy-could-prove-to-be-fragile-as-trump-pick-takes-helm-of-ftc\/","title":{"rendered":"Lina Khan\u2019s legacy could prove to be fragile as Trump pick takes helm of FTC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Outgoing agency head was a determined antitrust enforcer during her tenure, but some detractors say she was a bully with unchecked power<\/p>\n<p>Lina Khan was installed as the US\u2019s top antitrust watchdog with a mandate to turn the page on an era of light-touch enforcement. According to her critics, Khan was a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/jul\/13\/lina-khan-hearing-ftc-chair-republican-regulations-meta-google\">bully<\/a>\u201d with \u201cunchecked power\u201d. But, by her reckoning, this new era brought \u201coff the charts\u201d success.<\/p>\n<p>In Silicon Valley and beyond, industry leaders argue she went too far. Some officials inside the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) complained the agency was hamstrung by mismanagement. And now, as Khan prepares to step down, her successor has made no secret of his plan to break with her agenda.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/19\/lina-khan-ftc-legacy-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outgoing agency head was a determined antitrust enforcer during her tenure, but some detractors say she was a bully with unchecked power Lina Khan was installed as the US\u2019s top antitrust watchdog with a mandate to turn the page on an era of light-touch enforcement. According to her critics, Khan was a \u201cbully\u201d with \u201cunchecked &#8230; <a title=\"Lina Khan\u2019s legacy could prove to be fragile as Trump pick takes helm of FTC\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/19\/lina-khans-legacy-could-prove-to-be-fragile-as-trump-pick-takes-helm-of-ftc\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Lina Khan\u2019s legacy could prove to be fragile as Trump pick takes helm of FTC\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}